wikipedia_tools 2.4.1

This is a Wikipedia Tool to fetch revisions based on a period of time.

Welcome to the Wikipedia Periodic Revisions (wikipedia_tools)

wikipedia_tools is a Python Package to download wikipedia revisions for pages belonging to certain categories, based on a period of time. This package also provides overview stats for the downloaded data.

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Dependencies and Credits

Wikipedia API

This package is built on top of the Wikipedia API. This code was forked under the base subpackage.

ajoer/WikiRevParser

Also we forked the code from ajoer/WikiRevParser and we modified it to support from and to datetime to fetch revisions between certain periods; the modified code is wikipedia_toools.scraper.wikirevparser_with_time.py.

Note: No need to download these two projects, they are already integrated as part of this project.

Installation

Via PIP

pip install wikipedia_tools

Or install manually by cloning and then running

pip install -e wikipedia_tools

wikipedia_tools package

This packages is responsible for:

• fetching the wikipages revisions based on a period of time
• load them into parquet, and
• provide basic analysis

It contains three main subpackages and the utils package which contains few helpers functions:

Downlaod Wiki Article Revisions [wikipedia_tools.scraper]

This subpackage is responsible for downloading the wikipedia revisions from the web.

The code below shows how to download all the revisions of pages:

• belonging to the Climate_change category.

• revisions between start of 8 months ago (1.1.2022) and now (29.9.2022). The get_x_months_ago_date function returns the datetime of the beginning of 8 months ago.

  from wikipedia_tools.utils import utils 
  utils.get_x_months_ago_date(8)
  

• if save_each_page= True: each page is fetched and downloaded on the spot under the folder data/periodic_wiki_batches/{categories_names}/from{month-year}_to{month-year}. Otherwise, all the page revisions are fetched first and then saved into one jsonl file.

from wikipedia_tools.scraper import downloader
from datetime import datetime

wikirevs= downloader.WikiPagesRevision( 
                                        categories = ["Climate_change"],
                                        revisions_from = utils.get_x_months_ago_date(8),
                                        revisions_to=datetime.now(),
                                        save_each_page= True
                                        )

count, destination_folder = wikirevs.download()

For german wiki revisions, you can set the lang attribute to de - For example, you can download the German Wikipedia page revisions for the Climate_change category, as follows:

from wikipedia_tools.scraper import downloader
from datetime import datetime

wikirevs= downloader.WikiPagesRevision( 
                                        categories = ["Klimaveränderung"],
                                        revisions_from = utils.get_x_months_ago_date(1), # beginning of last month, you can use instead datetime.now() + dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta() to customize past datetime relatively
                                        revisions_to=datetime.now(),
                                        save_each_page= True,
                                        lang="de"
                                        )
count, destination_folder = wikirevs.download()

You can then process each file by, for example, reading the parquet file using pandas:

import pandas as pd
from glob import glob
files = f"{destination_folder}/*.parquet"

# Loop over all wiki page revisions with this period and read each wiki page revs as a pandas dataframe
for page_path in glob(files):
    page_revs_df = pd.read_parquet(page_name)
    # dataframe with columns ['page', 'lang', 'timestamp', 'categories', 'content', 'images', 'links', 'sections', 'urls', 'user']
    # process/use file ....

Overview Stats

## Initialize the analyzer object

from wikipedia_tools.analyzer.revisions import WikipediaRevisionAnalyzer
analyzer = WikipediaRevisionAnalyzer(
    category = category,
    period = properties.PERIODS._YEARLY_,
    corpus = CORPUS,
    root = ROOT_PATH
)

# Get the yearly number of articles that were created/edit at least once 
unique_created_updated_articles = analyzer.get_edited_page_count(plot=True, save=True)

# Returned the number of created articles over time
unique_created_articles = analyzer.get_created_page_count(plot=True, save=True)

# Returns the number of revisions over time
rev_overtime_df = analyzer.get_revisions_over_time(save=True)

# Returns the number of words over time
words_overtime_df = analyzer.get_words_over_time(save=True)

# Returns the number of users over time, grouped by user type
users_overtime_df = analyzer.get_users_over_time(save=True)

# return the top n wikipedia articles over time
top_edited = analyzer.get_most_edited_articles(top=4)

# return the articles sorted from most to least edited over time
most_to_least_revised = analyzer.get_periodic_most_to_least_revised(save=True)

You can find the full example under the examples folder.